The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says

8 points by cpncrunch 1 month ago | 5 comments
  • andsoitis 1 month ago
    > We may not yet have definitive evidence that we live in a simulation. But the deeper we look, the more our universe seems to behave like a computational process.

    Does "simulation" unequivocally follow "computational"?

    • RetroTechie 1 month ago
      No. Lacking solid evidence, that's one for the philosophers among us.

      As a sniff test: if a simulation is good enough, then from inside it you can't determine real or simulated. If not, then maybe 'glitches' could be detected, or a kind of jailbreak is possible.

      But even if: why would the fundamental mechanics of our universe not look/behave like a computation? And "behaves like" != "is".

    • romperstomper 1 month ago
      This article reminds me David Chalmers' "Reality+" book, it has many similar ideas
      • doitLP 1 month ago
        Isn’t that the point? If our simulation didn’t look like the universe, it wouldn’t be a very good one!
        • Gibbon1 1 month ago
          Close to my thought. Our simulation of the universe looks suspiciously like a simulation.